By Michael Schaus
Thursday, August 29, 2013
The spectacle of the pro-Obama rally yesterday, disguised
insufficiently as a tribute to one of America’s civil rights heroes, was rife
with an undercurrent of unintentional irony. After all, it was the Democrat
Party that led the Confederacy in the Civil War, opposed the civil rights
legislation throughout the 20th Century, and used the federal government to
intimidate would-be civil rights activists. The event, however, did awaken a
renewed interest in the words of Martin Luther King Jr. for many Americans. One
line, above all else, from his 1963 Address at the Lincoln Memorial speaks
today as a testament to Liberalism’s callous, and repeated, failings in the
black community.
The string of speakers yesterday were darlings of the
Left. Organizers even felt it necessary to exclude the Nation’s only black US
Senator, because before his name is the letter “R”. Despite the fact that the
Democrat party supported the KKK, instituted Jim Crow laws, fought for
“separate but equal” segregation laws, and opposed Martin Luther King Jr.’s
march on Washington, They felt only their champions could bring justice to the
day’s events. Apparently if you don’t tow the Party line, you’re no friend to
their interpretation of MLK’s Dream.
Standing before a crowd that had clamored for a message
of hope, and individual rights, Dr. King rang out the warning, that “We cannot
be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a small ghetto to a
larger one.” A half century later, it would seem Liberalism has successfully
managed to contain the Negro in the slums of Chicago, New York, LA, and
Detroit. In America’s most liberal cities, the black community lives with
violence, crime and poverty unmatched throughout most of the rest of the
nation.
It seems appropriate then, to ask the question, what has
happened to King’s Dream?
I also had a dream for America. I had a dream that one
day this nation would rise up, and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." Alas,
the Democrat Party has convinced much of the nation that such a creed is not
possible in today’s America. Minorities, according to the Modern American Left,
are incapable of achievement without the helpful hand of government. Black men
and women, according to the Democrat Party, can only find prosperity through
the use of Food stamps, urban housing programs, and affirmative action programs
in federally funded higher education
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live
in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character.” And yet we live instead in a nation where the
Liberally-inclined media uses the term “white-Hispanic” in their racially
sensationalized news coverage. We also live in a nation where dozens of black
children are shot every week in the war zone of Chicago without so much as a
whisper on the nightly national news, or from the first “white-black” President
in American history.
Most of America has a dream. It is the same Dream that
King articulated so emotionally 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial. And the progressive brand of Obama’s Democrat Party has spent the
last fifty years suffocating this dream under empty promises and government
programs. Just like the plantation owners of the pre-war south, the Modern
Democrat Party promises black America a roof, food, and protection from the
risks of freedom. . . And the brave few who dare to champion the forgotten
cause of individualism are ridiculed among the Left; called traitors to their
race; and are said to not know their proper place – as voters in the Democrat
plantation.
Beyond the hypocrisy, the message that was absent from
yesterday’s commercialized remembrance of King’s speech, was by far his most
important message. Our rights, as King Preached, are not gifts given to us by
the government. Our prosperity should not hinge on a governor’s attitude, or
the President’s signature, but on our own initiative; for only without the
oppressive hand of government will men and women of any race be able to say
those powerful words that closed Martin Luther King’s historic speech:
Free at Last. Free at Last. Thank God Almighty, I am Free
at Last.”
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